[ILUG] Restricte bash login

[Robert Gallagher]

yeah theres a few options available.

You can set up an rbash shell (if its installed on your system), have a look
at the manpage for rbash. Firstly
set the user's shell to /usr/bin/rbash (or whatever the path is to it), then
create a directory like /usr/local/share/rbash/bin/ and set up symlinks in
there to whatever binaries you want the user to be able
to execute, and set the user's PATH variable to that directory. Now they
have a restricted shell and you
control what commands they can run :)

Alternatively you could chroot them to /usr/local/apache/whatever, and
create a directory structure in there with the binaries that you want
to give them access to, the syntax is:

chroot -u <user/group> <directory-to-chroot-to>

So they wont be able to see above that particular directory.

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Tom
Cooper
Sent: 11 January 2002 14:04
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Restricte bash login


Hi all,

What is available to create a user with a restricted
shell? I need to create a user with a home directory
/usr/local/apache/whatever but I want to restrict him
to this directory.

Cheers,
Tom


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